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2. A shopkeeper had 8500 kg of rice. He sold 6550 kg. How much rice is he left
with?

3. Mrs Sharma had ` 8450 in her account. She withdrew ` 5050 from it. How much
money is there in her account now?

4. A school has 2125 students. The school decides to distribute chocolates to them.
They have 1950 chocolates. How many more chocolates do they need so that
each student gets a chocolate?

5. When Rahul and Sameer stand together on the weighing scale, they weigh
150 kg. Rahul’s weight is 89 kg. How much does Sameer weigh?

6. Honey purchased a watch and a dinner set for ` 6840. If the cost of the watch is
` 4650, what is the cost of the dinner set?

7. Frame a word problem for each of the following.

(a) 796 – 231 = ? (b) 8953 – 3475 = ? (c) 5661 – 4829 = ?

LET’S EVALUATE

1. Subtract the numbers.

(a) 6823 from 9954 (b) 2897 from 7106

(c) 6172 from 8243 (d) 1244 from 2075
2. Subtract and check your answer.

(a) 4925 from 8073 (b) 8009 from 9432

(c) 3791 from 7246 (d) 1999 from 3075

3. Find the missing digits.
Th H T O Th H T O
(a) (b)
8 7 4 ? ? 7 1 2

– ? 2 ? 1 – 5 ? 4 ?

5 ? 8 1 1 3 ? 6

4. If you add 2350 to a number, your answer will be 6128. What is the number?

5. Humaira had a good collection of 4175 seashells. She gave 1015 seashells to
her cousin. How many is she left with?

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